This autumn, my husband and I have been busily jumping on the local food bandwagon by buying up as much local produce as possible and preserving it to last us all winter. One of the the things that small farmers do in order to stay afloat in competitive markets is to create “value added” farm [...]

A nice Sierra Club staffer explains Why You Can’t Recycle Plastic Bottle Caps. : NPR Just another reason to avoid buying plastic in the first place.

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Living in California it’s easy to get into the habit of having an inexpensive glass of wine with dinner. At the moment there is such an abundance of wineries that it is easy to find inexpensive and tasty bottles. Yet wine growing regions such as California’s Napa Valley may already be endangered. There is growing [...]

Eating local is the latest crazy in sustainability. Across the West innovative restaurants have advocated eating fresh, local foods for many years. Some early innovators in the San Franscisco Bay area were Greens, a classic vegetarian restaurant opened in 1979, in the Fort Mason Center and Alice Waters’ famous Chez Panisse, opened in 1971, in [...]

Crunchy Chicken has declared June 1-7 Low Impact Week. You can head on over to her blog to hear about her progress or participate yourself. If you need more goals or inspiration check out No Impact Man. Let us know how it goes.
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Last week Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement offended sustainable food advocates in the Bay Area by declaring that the food at the Ferry Farmer’s Market was boutique-y and prohibitively expensive. Here’s the report from the SF Chronicle. Needless to say, this didn’t make local farmers, like Steve Sando, of Rancho [...]